Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy

DRicherby

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16 Jan 2011 - 10:56 PM

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Panoramas aren't something I know a lot about but there's a lot of distortion in this one so I hope somebody knowledgeable can help you avoid that in the future. Do make sure you stand somewhere that allows you to avoid foreground distractions like the balcony in the top-right corner.

My main question is, why were you using flash? On a sunny day like this, flash has no effect at all on anything more than a few metres from the camera. In this case, the flash has hit nothing except for the balcony, which oughtn't be there in the first place. The other thing that flash has done is confuse your camera's white balance. This is way off, and has produced a sky that's almost pure cyan — there's as much green in it as there is blue. Cameras often get white balance completely wrong when there's a lot of orange and a lot of blue in the scene. Manually selecting daylight white balance would have given much better results.

I've tried to make a white balance correction in my mod but it was impossible to get something satisfactory. It may even be that the camera was using different white balance settings for the different shots in the panorama, since the sky is much greener on the left than it is on the right. I also sharpened my mod a little.

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Sooty_1 (Critique Team)

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18 Jan 2011 - 9:48 AM

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With panoramas, it is better to try to get the camera back vertical to avoid too much distortion. Don't use too wide a lens (unless you can get the nodal point of the lens at the point of rotation!!)...better just not to use too wide a lens! And you can always take the picture with the camera in the portrait orientation and stitch the long sides together. It is even possible to do two horizontal panoramas, rotate them 90 deg and stitch them together and rotate back to get more height.

This shot: The balcony on the right is a distraction, so a couple of steps to the left would have helped, and the top of the tower has been lost. The main square is underexposed, but not bad for a first effort! My advice would be to try it at another time of day when the buildings are more favourably lit, and stitch more pictures at a less wide angle

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